Paedophiles using the internet to target youngsters could be tracked down - by the way they use a keyboard.
Researchers are investigating ways to use technology which can determine a typist's age, sex and culture within ten keystrokes by monitoring their speed and rhythm.
Professor Roy Maxion, associate
Identity: New research which monitors the speed and rhythm of soming typing on a keyboard could be used to determine their age, sex and culture
Computer users are hooked up with electronic sensors to their fingers which monitors their typing patterns and speeds.
Former Northumbria Police Detective Inspector Phil Butler said the technique could useful for tracking down fraudsters and paedophiles.
Mr Butler, who heads Newcastle University's CyberCrime and Computer Security department, said: 'Professor Maxion takes 50 people at a time and hooks their fingers up to electronic sensors.
'He then videos, monitors and records their typing patterns, speeds and rhythms with a very accurate clock.
'He can now identify anyone using a keyboard within a 95 per cent accuracy within 10 keystrokes.
'As soon as you type ten numbers of letters he can work out your sex, your culture, your age and whether you have any hand injuries.
'In general women's typing tends to flow more and is a little quicker. You'd expect men's typing to be a little more heavy-handed and apparently that's the case.
'We're looking at the application of the research, particularly in relation to internet grooming.
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